Browsing Category
Health
Pelvic inflammatory disease on the rise in Nigeria,…
Me d i c a l p r a c t i t i o n e r s warn that pelvic inflammatory disease - an inflammation of the female…
Anxiety as non-communicable diseases assume bigger…
Public health experts are raising alarm over the rise of life threatening non-communicable diseases in Nigeria…
Adequate sleep enhances healthy living
Getting adequate sleep is no doubt beneficial to human body for healthy living. Sleep deprivation however, an…
Borehole digging and the attendant health risks
The inability of approximately 60 million Nigerians to access portable water, inclusive of government’s inefficient…
Aflatoxins, major cause of liver cancer in Africa –…
Heiner Lehr, the National Expert on Value Chain, UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), on Wednesday…
Health director warns against smoking, excess intake of…
Okechukwu Ossai, the Director of Public Health, Enugu State Ministry of Health, has urged Nigerians to embrace…
Research says irregular eating habit contributes to…
A new research by the American Heart Association journal Circulation has found that regular eating patterns and…
Curbing the rising malnutrition crisis in Nigeria
There seems to be some silent emergency in malnutrition in Nigeria, with the main underlying cause of nearly half…
NCDC moves to address Anti Microbial Resistance
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has brought experts together from various Ministries and Agencies, academia…
Private hospitals owners give conditions for…
Some private hospital owners in Nigeria have indicated readiness to fully participate in the National Health…
Expert says exclusive breastfeeding averts 13% of…
A nutrition specialist, Mrs Ada Ezeogu, says 13 per cent of newborn deaths can be averted if 90 per cent of mothers…
Concerns over rising cases of teenage depression
Jane Ajayi ( not real name) , a fifteen year old girl who lost her younger brother Rasheed two years ago in a car…